Iron in the soul
This fortnight 12 tribals were killed in a police firing in Orissa. Their crime: protesting against the acquisition of their land for an industrial park. The state says that it had acquired some
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India duly sells South short
Developing countries herded into no win deal
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Stung society
Giver and taker eqully culpable
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Asthma afflicts almost every house in Gorai
<font class='UCASE'>Pramod N Bagud pnb </font>, a pediatrician, and <font class='UCASE'>Manoj K Ved mkv </font>, a general physician, practise in Gorai, an area infamous for a 15 hectare dumpsite in Mumbai. They related terrible stories of the area s w
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Usual suspects
Forget the Internet. Welcome to roadblocks on the information route
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Farmer s income is more important than foodgrain production
Eminent agricultural scientist and chairperson, National Commission for Farmers NCF , <font class='UCASE'>M S Swaminathan</font> talks to <font class='UCASE'>Sourav Misra </font> on agricultural research, the role of the public and private sector in I
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The private eye
Water privatisation in IT capital is taking citizens for a long ride
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Yes, we do like the internet
But please don t make it the McDonald burger
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Land use can be changed
Polluted groundwater cannot
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Inputs of social scientists are critical
John R Seager, research director, Human Sciences Research Council HSRC of South Africa, speaks to Atanu Sarkar on interdisciplinary aspects of public health
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The 'other' food crisis
There is so much about rural India that escapes notice that one more area of neglect will not break the camel s back. I am talking about the crisis of fodder for livestock. A grim silence surrounds
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A scoop
Geopolitics of oil, circa 2025
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QED. Amen
Against religion in a laboratory and science in a church
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Return our forests
S C Tripura, a Congress party member of <br> the Tripura legislative assembly, talks to <br> <font class='UCASE'>Nitin Sethi</font> about the consequences of <br> reserving forests in Tripura
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C for clean
I remember many years ago receiving a call from a bbc journalist asking which villages in India should they visit to see the impacts of climate change. This was the early 1990s. I was puzzled and
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A patent row
Can the public sector take responsibility to develop drugs for neglected diseases?
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Brown clouds are a transcontinental issue
Asian Brown Clouds created a lot of heat in South Asia, a few years ago see: Aerial Raid, Down To Earth, August 15, 2002 . Now the chief proponent of the phenomenon, <font class='UCASE'>Veerabhadran Ramanathan</font>, director of the Center for A
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____ development mechanism
Clean...Cheap...Complicated...Corrupt...Co opted...
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Third time lucky?
Yet another Nobel for nuclear non proliferation
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The India Science Report
Country s scientific prowess cat is out of the bag